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Publishing Fund

The TUM Open Access Publishing Fund is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and covers article processing charges (APC) for papers published by TUM members in open access journals when certain eligibility conditions are fulfilled.

Overview

Eligibility Conditions

The submitting or corresponding author must be a TUM member and specify his/her affiliation according to the TUM Publication Guidelines.

Your article will be published in an open access journal, which provides free access to all articles without any subscription fee immediately after publication and ensures the quality of articles through a peer review process. A list of eligible journals can be found at the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The article-processing charge (APC) does not exceed 2,000 € or 2,210 USD per article (including VAT). Partial reimbursement is not possible. Please note, that cost details on the websites of publishers or journals usually are specified withour value-added tax.

The author has no access to other funding to finance an open access publication.

Each funded publication should contain a reference to the DFG-funding, for example: "This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the framework of the Open Access Publishing Program." or "Diese Publikation wurde von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Technischen Universität München (TUM) im Rahmen des Programms Open-Access-Publizieren finanziell unterstützt."

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Publishers with whom the TUM has special arrangements

Articles submitted to the following publishers will automatically be financed by the TUM Open Access Publishing fund when the eligibility conditions are fullfilled. Due to special agreements with these publishers, the TUM receives certain discounts for article processing charges (APC).

Please specify your affiliation with TUM when you submit your article. Additionally, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen are applying IP address checks to authenticate TUM members. Therefore, please use an institutional computer within the TUM IP range and a specific PAC setting for your browser. How to set up the necessary proxy configuration can be found on the LRZ website.

All other publishers

If you want to publish your article with any other publisher, please use our webform to apply to the TUM Open Access Publishing Fund and provide us with some details on your publication project. Please check out before hand the fund's eligibility conditions.

You can register your article for funding before you submit it to the publisher, but at the latest when your article is accepted for publication.

Invoicing

The university library pays the publisher’s invoice. Would you please specify the following address for the invoice to the publisher, when the TUM has open access arrangement with the respective publisher:

In the following SCOAP3 journals TUM members can publish open access at no costs – under the following conditions: The article preprints had been deposited in one of the main HEP categories of arXiv.org before submitted to the publisher. The relevant arXiv categories are: hep-ex, hep-lat, hep-ph und hep-th.

Funded Articles

You will find an overview about the articles, which were funded by our Publishing Fund at mediaTUM.The following dataset demonstrates, where the funded articles have been published, and which costs has been caused thereby.

Contact

General Questions

General questions about open access and queries about publication projects for open access should be addressed to:open-access@ub.tum.de